Motivational Quotes

Love

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

- Osgood, Samuel

Best Quotes about Love

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

10.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

11.

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

12.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

13.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

14.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

15.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

16.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

17.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

18.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

19.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

20.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

21.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

22.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

23.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

24.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

25.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

26.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

28.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

29.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

30.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

31.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

32.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

33.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

34.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

35.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

36.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

37.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

38.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

39.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

41.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

42.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

43.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

44.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

45.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

46.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

47.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

48.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

49.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

50.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin